Michael Steinberger
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 22 Jul
Michael Steinberger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And Karp and I kept in touch, kept talking.
And the book is the product of essentially six years of ongoing conversation.
Yeah.
Well, it's a great question because, you know, it's often the case that biographers, by the time they reach the end of the, their reporting and writing have come to absolutely hate their subjects.
I have, I did not reach that point with Karp.
I enjoy his company, enjoy talking to him.
We disagree about a lot of stuff, but argument was, you know, sort of the key to making the relationship work.
At one point during my reporting, just one day I was down in Washington with him and, uh,
He was being driven to a meeting and I just hopped along for the ride.
And we were just talking about the book.
And he said that people had asked him why he had agreed to cooperate with me.
And he said one reason for that was because he knew that I would never be jealous or resentful of him.
He was already very wealthy and has become even more wealthy now, but it was true.
I was not going to be envious of either his power or his wealth.
He's got a very good sense of what makes people tick.
It's one of the things that I think has made him a quite effective CEO.
He's very perceptive about people.
he can figure them out he's not always right he's been he was wrong about some things with me he he was convinced that i i was a trust fund kid and would not believe me when i told him it's not true it's not true so he was absolutely wrong about that but you could i couldn't dissuade him otherwise talk about palantir i mean it's sort of like a
Well, I think there's a fundamental misconception that colors a lot of the debate about this company, the work they do.
it's reason enough to be concerned.
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